Gaming Quarterly Bank Repos

The WSJ notes that several of the biggest banks (Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup) are lowering their net borrowings in the “repo” market by 41% at the ends of each quarter tomake their balance sheet look better for Q reports.

Highlighted blue bars of top graphic indicate the end of each quarter.

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All data via the Federal Reserve

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Source:
BofA, Citi Made ‘Repos’ Errors
MICHAEL RAPOPORT
WSJ, MAY 27, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704032704575268902274399416.html

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